Logo
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more ext

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Civilization
category

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so… heroic. – George Carlin

Category:
Civilization

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Civilization

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

Category:
Civilization

K is for “Kenghis Khan.” He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. – Harlan Ellison, From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet

Category:
Civilization

Random Quotes

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do. – Norman Ralph Augustine

Category:
Sports

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. – Ella Maillart

Category:
Travel

I had always loved John Fords pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me. – Ethel Waters

Category:
Death

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising. – Alan Rickman

Category:
Future